Antoinette Tola's Story

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Antoinette tola and her husband, giovanni, had recently emigrated to new jersey from italy. You could come to this country a easier if you had a sponsor here in america. Some of these smaller neighborhoods would have a big sponsor who would bring in people. And they would support a him, because it was always a hymn. One day, santa found antoinette alone at home. He walked into her house with a gun in one hand and a roll of cash in the other. He told her she had a choice. She could sleep with him and he'd give her the money, or he would kill her. So she takes out

In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle shop of a man named Alfredo Cocchi. Newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend, and New York police said that there were no clues to go on. But an investigator named Grace Quackenbos Humiston decided that she would do whatever it took to find her. She became known as “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.”

Brad Ricca’s book is Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation.

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